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Ex-Super Eagles coach, Onigbinde, is dead

Former Nigerian national team coach High Chief Fetus Adegboye Onigbinde is dead 

The demise of the late football administrator, which occurred on Monday night,  was announced by the family via a statement signed by Mrs. Bolade Adesuyi.

The statement reads, ” We announce the passing of this great man, a Modakeke High Chief, the first Indigenous Nigerian Super Eagles coach, father, husband, grandfather, great-grandfather, brother, and friend, High Chief Fetus Adegboye Onigbinde, who passed away unto the great beyond a couple of minutes ago.”

The late Modakeke High Chief was born on March 5, 1938.

Chief Onigbinde, an icon of Nigerian football, was two time coach of the Nigerian national team.

He was in charge of the Green Eagles first between 1981 to 1984 and then in 2022.

He led the Green Eagles to the Africa Cup of Nations in 1984.

The late Onigbinde led the Super Eagles to the 2002 World Cup, leading a consortium of coaches to the mundial, jointly staged by Korea and Japan.

As a coach, he also handled the IICC Shooting Stars of Ibadan, a club he later led as the General Manager, during which he changed the name of the club to Shooting Stars Sports Club (3SC).

The late football technocrat was also a long-time serving FIFA/CAF instructor and was involved in the training and nurturing of coaches across the continent of Africa.

Tosin Omojola

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